Hapless Manchester City managers in Ferguson's 24 years at Old Trafford

Pearce was dope imo, best defensive manager of the decade. If he was allowed the money Sven and Hughes got, he would have turned the team into winners by now.

How long was Coppell there?

(Of course he had to rely on the likes of Dickov, Samaras and Vassell up front for lols and this is why they sucked and he got fired and deservedly so...)

Coppell left Palace in October 1996 to become manager of Manchester City, a job that he would quit after only six games and 33 days in charge. He cited the pressure of the job as his reason for leaving the club.[3] His reign at the club is the shortest of any City manager to date.

The glaring thing about this is the length of Eriksson's tenure, which considering he was actually doing pretty well and had built a good squad is kinda mental.

Tempted to vote for Joe Royle though for taking them from the second division back to the Premiership though, which is surely a greater achievement than anything most of these guys managed, money or otherwise.

dont know about that, they had a great squad for that division, were packing out maine rd every week, etc. They should never have gotten near that level in the first place. Martin jol could prob have taken them back to midtable div 1 given three or four years

think sven, hughes and pearce between them did good work oer a sustained period.

Sven got fired for being too tactically defensive, didn't he? And to think we thought that moving from Thaksin to Mansour would be a step up the crazy ladder.

got fired for tailing off after a great start, and losing 15-0 or somethin to middlesbro

o ya. I'm sure the tactics had something to do with it too, though. And I'll believe that even if someone disproves me.

thats what faith is all about

teh sheikh only took after when hughes had taken charge, right?

yep

Pearce did a good job but I'm fucked if I'm voting for that nob-end.

Sven would've had them in the CL by now

Frank Clark, he was one of those five-minute wonders like John Gregory and Mike Walker, who were briefly taken seriously, but never as seriously as they took themselves.

lol truth

Went for Peter Reid just a head of Stuart Pearce as the most likely to scare the shit out of a player at half time.

Remember when Pearce first took over and admitted to not having a fucking clue what he was doing? He showed his wife his team sheet and she pointed out to him that he didn't have a goalie.

sven for being a goofball, also lol mexico

got fired for tailing off after a great start, and losing 15-0 or somethin to middlesbro

I think that defeat was after it was announced that he wasn't going to be kept on.

Agent Coppell ftw.

Might need to add another name next summer if this is true.

http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/comment/2010/11/12/the-power-games-behind-ray-wilkins-chelsea-sacking-82029-27647514/

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went sven in the end

Voted Sven as well. They were good then as I recall - can't even remember why he left now (presumably fired?)

fired due to failing to qualify for cl in first season, because at christmas they were overachieving wildly by looking like it was a possibility

best man city fuckup of recent years was the infamous david-james-goes-up-front-and-forces-penalty-that-robbie-fowler-misses which kept them out of europe

Did that actually happen? There are no pics.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/football/manchester_city/s/158/158739_manchester_city_1_middlesbrough_1.html

it is fair to say man city have enjoyed their final-day-of-the-season meetings with middlesbrough

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yep

but maybe no votes is harsh on hughes.

sven was better than his successors but still oversaw some unbelievably tedious performances.

tedious progress is a stage you have to o'erleap from being a basketcase club imo

i think i somehow voted for sven twice, so sure. i think hughes did pretty well for trying to pull together a team of overpriced chumps and brilliant lunatics, tho.

he did ok, mancini certainly hasn't turned him into a ranieri figure that's for sure

hughes was like a retarded, tempban-happy mod imo

haha i have no idea what that could possibly mean yet i recognise some essential truth in it

darragh why the hell are you awake, i have the excuse of being blind drunk and unemployed at least.

i have the excuse that tomorrow sees the national debt increase by 90bn and i'm reading as much as i can about that, and because i saw paranormal activity last week and dont like my bedroom so much atm, and because i can, almost literally, do my job asleep